{"id":159439,"date":"2025-09-21T19:27:10","date_gmt":"2025-09-21T19:27:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/159439\/"},"modified":"2025-09-21T19:27:10","modified_gmt":"2025-09-21T19:27:10","slug":"spacex-launches-28-starlink-internet-satellites-from-floridas-space-coast-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/159439\/","title":{"rendered":"SpaceX launches 28 Starlink internet satellites from Florida’s Space Coast (video)"},"content":{"rendered":"

SpaceX launched its 119th Falcon 9 mission of the year today (Sept. 21), sending another batch of its Starlink internet satellites aloft from Florida’s Space Coast.<\/p>\n

A Falcon 9<\/a> rocket topped with 28 Starlink spacecraft lifted off from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station<\/a> today at 6:53 a.m. EDT (1053 GMT).<\/p>\n

The Falcon 9’s first stage came back to Earth as planned about 8.5 minutes later, touching down on the SpaceX<\/a> drone ship “A Shortfall of Gravitas,” which was stationed in the Atlantic Ocean.<\/p>\n

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A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launches 28 Starlink satellites from Florida’s Space Coast on Sept. 21, 2025. (Image credit: SpaceX)<\/p>\n

It was the 11th flight for this particular booster, which is designated B1085. Among its previous missions were the Crew-9 and Fram2<\/a> astronaut flights and Firefly Blue Ghost Mission 1<\/a>, which sent a private robotic lander to the moon.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, the Falcon 9’s upper stage continued carrying the 28 Starlink satellites to low Earth orbit<\/a>, where they were deployed on time about 64 minutes after launch, according to SpaceX<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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View of the Starlink satellite stack from the Falcon 9’s upper stage. (Image credit: SpaceX)<\/p>\n

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Today’s launch was the 119th Falcon 9 flight of the year. SpaceX has also conducted four other launches in 2025 \u2014 suborbital test flights of Starship<\/a>, the giant rocket the company is developing to help humanity settle Mars<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The most recent Starship launch \u2014 the 10th overall for the vehicle \u2014 occurred on Aug. 26<\/a> and was a complete success, according to SpaceX.<\/p>\n

Breaking space news, the latest updates on rocket launches, skywatching events and more!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SpaceX launched its 119th Falcon 9 mission of the year today (Sept. 21), sending another batch of its…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":159440,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[64,63,128,285],"class_list":{"0":"post-159439","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-space","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-science","11":"tag-space"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159439","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=159439"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159439\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/159440"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=159439"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=159439"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=159439"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}